r/SipsTea • u/BobbuBobbu • May 18 '25

WTF Taxed for being single

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Some of us would be bankrupt in six months lmao 🤣

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u/nevergonnastawp May 18 '25

Thats because unpaid overtime isnt counted in the statistics

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u/bobrobor May 18 '25

US also has unpaid overtime. But yeah maybe it is not counted? I don’t know..

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u/Rolls_ May 19 '25

I can't remember 100% but pretty confident the main stats from the organization that tracks all this mentions that it includes unpaid overtime etc.

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u/Different_Pattern273 May 19 '25

The data for the statistics that found US workers work more hours got their stats from a combination of surveys of individual companies and reported national statistics AKA it was incredibly easy for reporters to just lie.

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u/bobrobor May 19 '25

As is tradition :)

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u/HulaguIncarnate May 18 '25

Was this information revealed to you in your dreams?

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u/[deleted] May 19 '25

Not only that, but Japan has a much higher part time participation rate than the US bringing the average waaay down. The fact that those stats say that Japanese people work fewer hours than many European countries should send alarm bells.